Nietzsche's Zarathustra"This Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most popular and yet least comprehensible book Many have left the matter there, deriding both the author and his public. Kathleen Marie Higgins refuses to take this easy path. She reveals the complexities underlying the work's apparent lack of organization and argues that these complexities, far from being gratuicous, are telling and significant. She argues that Zarathustra breaks the boundaries that separate a number of genres from one another. Her own interpretation, reflecting the features of its subject, breaks the boundaries that separate a number of academic disciplines. Higgins has written an engaging book that will prove indispensable to Nietzsche's many readers."--Alexander Nehamas, University of Pennsylvania. |
Contents
An ad Hominem Introduction to Nietzsche | 1 |
Nietzsches Conception of Tragedy and the Tragic Worldview | 11 |
Nietzsches Case Against Christian Morality | 27 |
Why Zarathustra Speaks | 45 |
The Ambivalence of Zarathustras Doctrine | 75 |
Eternal Recurrence Versus the Doctrine of Sin | 103 |
Where Zarathustra Ends Up | 131 |
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allusions Apollonian Apollonian and Dionysian Apuleius Ass Festival attitude audience basic become Bildungsroman Birth of Tragedy book's chapter character Christian moral worldview claims communication concept Daybreak Dionysian perspective Dionysus discussion doctrine of eternal dream Edited eternal recurrence experience expression failure feel fictional Friedrich Nietzsche future Genealogy of Morals goal Golden Ass Greek tragedy guilt Heidegger hero human Ibid images indicates individual insight interpretation involves kind KSA/SB Letter to Overbeck lives Lucius Magnus meaning Menippean satire Middleton Nehamas Nietzsche's view Nietzsche's Zarathustra observes one's oneself Oxford past person philosophical present problem Prologue R. J. Hollingdale reader reading redemption relationship Richard Schacht Schopenhauer sense significance Socrates soul speak spirit Spoke Zarathustra Stillest Hour story suggests teaching temporal things thought tightrope walker tion tone tragic suffering trans Translated by Walter Übermensch vision Walter Kaufmann woman York Zarathustra's doctrine Zarathustra's speeches